Old books, you know well, are books of the world’s youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.Books – ReadingQuotations by Oliver Wendell …
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.Books – ReadingQuotations by John Harington
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book — I’ll waste no time reading it.Books – ReadingQuotations by Moses Hadas
I have read your book and much like it.Books – ReadingQuotations by Moses Hadas
I read part of it all the way through.Books – ReadingQuotations by Samuel Goldwyn
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.Books – ReadingQuotations by Edward Gibbon
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.Books – ReadingQuotations by Edward Gibbon
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.Books – ReadingQuotations by W. Fusselman
A book that is shut is but a block.Books – ReadingQuotations by Thomas Fuller
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.Books – ReadingQuotations by Margaret Fuller
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.Books – ReadingQuotations by Robert Frost
Read much, but not many books.Books – ReadingQuotations by Benjamin Franklin
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.Books – ReadingQuotations by Benjamin Franklin
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.Books – ReadingQuotations by Anatole France
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.Books – ReadingQuotations by Edward M. Forster
Read in order to live.Books – ReadingQuotations by Gustave Flaubert
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.Books – ReadingQuotations by Henry Fielding
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.Books – ReadingQuotations by William Faulkner
When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.Books – ReadingQuotations by Desiderius Erasmus
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.Books – ReadingQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.Books – ReadingQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.Books – ReadingQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never read any book that is not a year old.Books – ReadingQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.Books – ReadingQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never judge a book by its movie.Books – ReadingQuotations by J. W. Eagan
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.Books – ReadingQuotations by Isaac Disraeli
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.Books – ReadingQuotations by Charles Dickens
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.Books – ReadingQuotations by Rene Descartes
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.Books – ReadingQuotations by Sir John Denham
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.Books – ReadingQuotations by Christopher Dawson
Next, in importance to books are their titles.Books – ReadingQuotations by Paul Davies
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.Books – ReadingQuotations by Frank Dane
You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.Books – ReadingQuotations by Jim Critchfield
I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.Books – ReadingQuotations by Coolio
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.Books – ReadingQuotations by Charles Caleb Colton
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.Books – ReadingQuotations by William Cobbett
A room without books is like a body without a soul.Books – ReadingQuotations by Marcus T. Cicero
A book is the only immortality.Books – ReadingQuotations by Rufus Choate
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.Books – ReadingQuotations by Gilbert …
The mere brute pleasure of reading –the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.Books – ReadingQuotations by Gilbert K. Chesterton
